He Was A Very Generous Soul And

I Took A Workshop From Him A Few Months After That. That Experience Changed My Whole Approach To Photography. At That Workshop In Yosemite In 1973 I Decided I Wanted To Try And See If I Could Pursue This For Myself, And I'm Still Trying.

I Think One Of The Aspects Of Photography That Remains For Me Is I Find The Process Still Frustrating. The Counter To That Is That It's Still Very Exciting. If You Didn't Have The Frustration, You Wouldn't Have The Excitement. If You Didn't Have The Disappointment, You Wouldn't Have The Magical Intoxication Of This Process Working.

When I'm About Ready To Press The Cable Release On The View Camera, I've Tried To Anticipate Some Of The Challenges I'm Going To Encounter In The Darkroom.

I've Found Even After Nearly 30 Years Of Doing This, There Are All Kinds Of New Surprises That Rear Their Heads At Various Times And I Truly Believe That 51% Of The Images, Success Takes Place In The Darkroom.

And The Camera Position, The Organization, Looking For Repeating Forms, Shapes, Trying To Set Up A Visual Rhythm Seemed To Come Very Natural. All Of A Sudden I Was In A Forest Of Aluminum And Steel Rather Than A Forest That We Might Think Of In A Traditional Sense.